What, then, is special about the context of agriculture?: That
business relations on the family farm are not separate from family relations, unpaid work is not
separate from paid work, intimate relations are not separate from instrumental relations? Also, the
necessary co-operation between husband and wife in making the farm survive and the small rural
communities in which agricultural production takes place are important aspects of the context. These
contextual aspects are not just characteristics of the traditional/pre-modern period.